Example sentences of "spent more time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Niki relates it , Chiti spent more time looking after two score stray dogs that roamed through the Alfa factory than he did making sure his engines actually ran . |
| 2 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 3 | We probably spent more time watching what happens in facilities where care is provided for the elderly than anyone has done before . |
| 4 | The more weak-willed of the defenders very often spent more time watching the native princes eating their banquets than they did watching the enemy lines . |
| 5 | He spent more time hanging out at Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 6 | Vincent 's father spent more time ministering to the Catholic majority than to his own Protestant flock in the Brabant . |
| 7 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 8 | In classrooms where there were two adults , children were generally less distracted and spent more time working than in classrooms where there was only one . |
| 9 | He did not feed this to the eagles but sat and ate it himself , and spent more time staring into the deserted depths of Minch 's cage than any other . |
| 10 | Soon Gabrielle learned to leave him alone in his despair , and he spent more time playing darts and billiards at a Battersea pub . |
| 11 | They are broadly consistent with those from earlier studies carried out in other parts of the country except that children in the present study spent more time waiting for attention , in spite of the presence of an unprecedented number of support teachers and other ancillary staff and helpers . |
| 12 | Boys were more often distracted , and also spent more time waiting for attention from their teachers . |